Lecture Study Guide
Which of the following is an excitory neurotransmitter secreted by motor neurons innovating skeletal muscles?
ACh
This area is considered a motor speech area?
Broca's area
If you had damage to this part of your brain then you would have lose of motor coordination?
Cerebellum
What are cilliated CNS neuroglea that play an active role in moving the cerebra spinal fluid?
Epidermal
Control of temperature, endocrine activity, and thirst are functions associated with the ________.
Hypothalamus
Vital in the control of many body functions, including heart rate, digestion, sexual development, temperature regulation, emotion, hunger, thirst, vomiting, and regulation of the sleep cycle?
Medulla Oblongata
Senses hearing and equilibrium
Vestibulocochlear
Turns the eyeball laterally.
abducens nerve
Nerves that carry impulses toward the CNS only are ________.
afferent nerves
The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system are subdivisions of the?
autonomic nervous system
Swhann cells form a myelin sheath around the?
axon
The part of the neuron that deducts neurons away from its cell body?
axon
Whats neurons are commonly found in the eye and nose?
bipolar neuron
Which neuron can be found in the retina of the eye?
bipolar neuron
the most rare neuron?
bipolar neuron
The term central nervous system refers to the?
brain and spinal cord
What consists of the mid brain, medulla, and pons?
brain stem
peripheral nervous system consist of what nerves?
cranial and spinal nerves
The neuron processes that normally receives incoming stimuli are called?
dendrites
cell bodies of sensory nerves of spinal cord are located?
dorsal root of spinal cord
the outermost to interior of the meninges is?
dura mater, arachnoid, pia mater
A patient who receives a blow to the side of the skull exhibits the signs and symptoms on all of that side of face? Which nerve did he damage?
facial nerve
T/F: An afferent sensory neuron carries stimuli from the central nervous system to the affector?
false
T/F: Sensory neurons carry information away from the central nervous system?
false (motor)
intelligance and abstract reasoning is what area of the brain?
frontal
motor speech area
frontal lobe
pre motor area of the brain, what lobe?
frontal lobe
somatic motor cortex
frontal lobe
what is the lobe that contains the primary motor area that enables voluntary control of skeletal muscle movements
frontal lobe
The elevated ridges of tissue on the surface of the cerebral hemisphere are called?
gyri
heart rate, resperation,
medulla
If the ventral root of a spinal nerve were cut, what would be the result in the tissue or region that nerve supplies?
motor neurons (paralysis)
By far the most common neuron?
multipolar neuron
Which neuron is connected to a muscle?
multipolar neuron
The sheath of Swhann cells are also called the?
myelin sheath
The substance released at axon terminals to propagate an nervous impulse is called a
neurotransmitter
the visual area, is in what lobe?
occipital lobe
Which is connected to receptors in your nasal cavity?
olefactory nerve
Swhann cells are functionally similar to
oligodendricites
The affects of the sympathetic nervous system are the opposite of the
parasympathetic
resting and digesting system
parasympathetic division
Which part of the cerebral cortex is involved in intellect, cognition, recall, and personality?
prefrontal cortex
action potential caused by an influx of
sodium
The shallow grooves on the surface of the cerebral hemisphere are called?
sulcus
cells are not a type found in the neuorglea nervous system?
swhann cells
fight or flight reac?
sympathetic nervous system
An impulse from one nerve cell is communicated to another nerve cell via the ________.
synapse
The gap between two communicating neurons is termed:
synaptic cleft
auditory area of brain
temporal lobe
primary auditory cortex
temporal lobe
T/F: During depolarization the inside of the neurons membrane becomes less negative/more positive
true
T/F: Myelination of nerve fibers in the central system is the job of the oligodendrites?
true
T/F: the alembic system is the emotional part of the brain
true
Helps to regulate blood pressure and digestion.
vagus nerve